• The opposite of schadenfreude it's the enjoyment of another's success. It's also a subset of empathy.

• Two new terms to describe behaviors that support Freudenfreuede

  • Shoy: Intentionally sharing the joy of someone relating a success story by showing interest and asking follow up questions.

  • Bragitude: Intentionally tying words of gratiftude toward the listener following discussion of personal successes.

• Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 36

In a paper in World Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research, the psychologist Catherine Chambliss examines the role that freudenfreude and schadenfreude play in depression. When others presort success to us, they generally hope for an empathic response of shared joy. If instread they get a neative competitive reaction, they may respond with confusion, disappoinrtment, irritation, or all three. Ongoing lack of freudenfreude eventaully can opose a fatal challenge to a relationship, and in turn, relationship failure often produces depression.

Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 34

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